Outcome of first-trimester pregnancies with slow embryonic heart rate at 6-7 weeks gestation and normal heart rate by 8 weeks at US

Radiology

Volumn 236, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 643-646

  Doubilet, Peter M ^a   Benson, Carol B ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; FISHER EXACT TEST; FOLLOW UP; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ULTRASOUND;

FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART RATE, FETAL; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 22544484455     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2362040880     Document Type: Article

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